Confection-baking apparatus.



' E. H. LANIER & F. K. DRIESBGH. OONFEGTION. BAKING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED 0011.22, 1906. 919,601.

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Patented Apr. 27, 1909.

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pastry shel or container of the confection VUNITED sTATns PATENT OFFICE.

u EDWARD H. LANIER AND FRANK K. DRIESBACH, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

CON FE CTION -B AKIN G APPARATUS.

Speccation of Letters Patent.

Patented April 27, 1909.

Application filed October 22. 1906. Serial No. 340,036.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWARD H. LANIER and FRANK K. DRiEsBAcH, citizens of the United States, and residents of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, State of Ohio, have invented certain new.m and useful Improvements in Confection-Baking Apparatus, of which the following is a specification. The present invention relates to improvements 1n confection baking a paratus, and

particularl to an apparatus or baking the known as Parisian ice cream cones.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a `plan view, partly broken away, of an a paratus constructed in accordance with t 1e present invention; Fig. 2 is a transverse Fig. 1; Fig. 8 is a vertical sectional view on the line yy of Fig. 2.

The apparatus shown in the drawings is an im rovement upon that illustrated and descri ed in Letters Patent No. 845,557 granted February 26, 1907, and includes parts similar in form and arrangement to those of the apparatus illustrated in'said earlier application. That is`,the oven proper includes two members 1, 2, mounted in a suitable frame to rock about a longitudinal horizontal axis, said members or sections being hinged together at one end beyond the supporting frame and\ forming a conical chamba-,and a core piece 4 adapted to be removably supported 1n said chamber. The core 4 is connected with a handle 5 having radial projecting arms 6 adapted to enter notches or recesses formed in the outer ends of the oven members 1, 2, for connecting the core to the oven and supporting it in osition therein. The connection between tie core 4 and the handle 5 is such that the corcis adapted to move longitudinally a limited distance, relatively to the handle, a spring 7 being interposed between the core and handle and acting to force 'the core into the oven chamber when the arms 6 are in engagement with the members 1, 2. In the present apparatus two of such ovens are ar-` ranged side by side to rock about parallel horizontal axes, and the frame 10 in which said ovens are sup orted is provided with two independent hinged lids or covers 11. In the apparatus illustrated in the earlier application above referred to, the u per end of l the lsup orting frame is closed y webs or flanges ormed integral with the oven members or sections and one of said sections is constantly exposed to the atmosphere while the other only is subjected to the action of the heating device. By the present invention said lateralyvebs or flanges on the oven sections are dispensed with and .therebv passages are formed on opposite sides of each oven through which communication is established between the space or chamber below the oven and that inclosed by the cover 11. This permits a circulation ot heated air entirely about the oven and a simultaneous baking of opposite sides of the cone.

The frame 1() is of such size as to surround a suitable burner or heating device, conventionally represented at 12, and a deflecting plate 13 is mounted in said frame below the ovens. This deflector operates to deflect the heated air currents laterally so that they will pass around both of the ovens instead of assing directly upward between them.

'lzhe lower oven section will, ot' course, receive the greatest amount of heat and the oven may be readily turned in its bearings in the frame 10, 'by means of the handles 8, 9, to alternately bring the sections 1, 2', closer to the burner 12 as the baking progresses.

Each cover 11 is provided at one endl. with a pair of ears 13 from which project pins 1l that enter suitable notches or recesses iii lugs or ears 15 of the frame 10. At its ends each cover section is provided with inwardly extending ilanges 16, 17, the former of which is adapted to bear upon the outer surface of the upper oven section, whereby when the oven sections are separated slightly the cover will be rocked about the axis of the pins 14, moving with said upper oven section. By this means the oven may be readily opened sutliciently to permit of removing the core 4 without. disconnecting or separately adjusting the cover 11.

It will be noticed that the axis of the pin 14 is the same as that of the hinge connectmg the two members or sections 1, 2, of the oven and that said flanges 16, and 17, form the upper walls of the bearings of the frame 10 in which the oven is mounted.

The dellector 13 may be supported in any suitable manner. As shown it is connected with a rod or bar 1S which extends transversely across the frame 10 passing through suitable o enings in opposite sides thereof and being lield against endwise movement by removable pins 19.

piece 4.

The manner of using and advantages of the apparatus illustrated and described will be apparent. A single, lpreferably rectangular. frame, is adapted to support two of the ovens above a single burner and the curved covers 11 coniine the heated air Acurrents while permitting a free circulation thereof entirely about the oven, said covers offering fno hindrance to the manipulation of the oven bring either side adjacent a heating device and also to provide a cover for said frame, which was either hinged thereto or adapted to be bodily removed when desired. No claim is therefore made herein to such a device which it is to be noted could not properIy be termed a baking apparatus.

I-Iaving described our invention what we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is, y

1. In a baking apparatus, the combination of a frame, an oven rotatably supported in said frame and comprising two sections hinged together and a core adapted to be removably Vsupported in the chamber formedbetween said sections, and a cover hinged to vthe frame upon the same axis as that connecting said oven sections and extending over the oven to inelose a chamber which communicates with the space below the oven.

2. The herein described apparatus for baking hollow pastry forms comprising a sectional oven having its members hinged together ait one end, a core fitting within the oven *and adapted to be removed therefrom when the members thereof are slightly separated, and a supporting casing roviding an inclosed chamber surrounding t e oven, the portion of said casing over the upper member of the oven being mounted to move with said` oven member about the axis of they-hinge connecting the oven members as said upper member is raised to permit the core to be Withdrawn.

3. The herein described apparatus for baking hollow pastry forms comprising a two part oven having its members hlnged together at one end and each provided at its opposite end with a handle, whereby the upper oven member may be moved about said hinge from the lower member, a core fitting within theoven and adapted to be withdrawn therefrom by a longitudinal movement when the oven members are slightly separated, and a supporting casing providing a chamber surrounding the oven and in which the oven is mounted to turn about a horizontal axis, thc top of the casing being su` ported by a hinge, having the same axis as t at connecting the members of the oven, and .having its end walls bearing on the upper oven member, whereby it is rocked about its hinge, when the upper oven member is turned to ermit the core to be withdrawn, without aecting its relation to said oven member.

4. In a baking apparatus, the combination of a frame, an oven supported 'by said frame and comprising two sections hinged together at one end and forming between them a chamber which opensthrough the frame at the end opposite said hinge, a handle attached to each oven section, a core adapted to be inserted in the oven chamber, and a coverhinged to the frame upon the same axis as that of the hinge connecting the oven sections and forming with said frame a chamber surrounding the oven, said cover having inwardly extending flanges at its ends that bear` on the upper oven section, whereby the cover will be rocked about its hinge when the upper oven section is moved to or from the lower oven section.

5. The combination of a baking apparatus havingr an upper membeir mounted to swing about a horizontal axis, a frame supporting said apparatus, and a cover extending over the baking apparatus and hinged to the frame on the same axis as that on which the upper section of the baking apparatus swings.

In testimony whereof we afhx our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD II. LANIER. FRANK K. DRIESBACII. 

